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Only thing I can find on this is an older post of yours. I don't think Mao said that. He worked in a library himself and the director at this library introduced
by tokai 1y ago
Only thing I can find on this is an older post of yours. I don't think Mao said that. He worked in a library himself and the director at this library introduced him to Marxism. Marx was angry with bourgeoisie scholars though.
- metalman 1y agoThe quote was given to me by my uncle Kieth, who was the chief librarian in charge of periodicals at the main, central branch of the New York Public Library, long before the internet, there was more to the quote....in that the reason to kill the librarians, which they did a lot of durring the cultural revolution, was to eliminate those that understood the filing system, and was done as a part of the wholesale eliminating of discourse in western languages,philosophys, and systems. Dig a bit deeper, perhaps in chinese language books on Mao, but the quote does fit what was done. Edit. They kept the books though, and the card catolog of what is in.the Chinese national archives is rather astounding..